This week marks the week that we traveled to Russia, three years ago. Can you believe that? It is hard for me to believe because we have encountered so much and everything in our lives has changed.
We don’t often talk with AJ about his adoption because it brings up memories for him that are very hard for him to process. We do talk to him about where he is from and we talk to him a little about Russia and the Desky Dom (orphanage) but we never actually talk with him about his birth mother or the actual process of …read more

July 25, 2005
Though not on the date we anticipated, as of 10:20 am. July 25, 2005 AJP is now officially our son.

The judge was very happy with the documents we provided (thanks to
K, our social worker, and our doctors back at home) and he
happily waived the 10 day appeal period. So…we pick up Sasha (AJ)
this afternoon and fly to Moscow tomorrow at 5!
This will be the last email until we arrive home to “hibernate” and
after this trip…WE NEED IT!